God, Reason and Love

Beauty and intelligence can be curses when they are qualities possessed in isolation, alien to prevailing desires. The profane pursuit of the beautiful, the tyrannical domination of reason by emotion. But what are these if not the common experiences of man?

Imagine science as a route to enlightenment in place of religion, reason and logic as the moral code necessary to control our negative and unenlightened impulses and imagine the pursuit of beauty and love as our goals. For God we would have reason, for naked self interest we would have beauty, love is the human manifestation of beauty, when we act beautifully we act with love, when we perceive only the pure beauty of another, then we are in love.

For God would become reason, reason is reborn from time to time but is sacrificed, reason preaches to us and logic is it's moral code. Success in our search for God is to be measured by the beauty of the answer to each individual question used to lift a corner of the veil. The journey is art and science. We are but tools. Maybe there is no other sentient life but us, maybe there is. Maybe the race is to become God.

Religion is correct in as much as it seems in it's purest forms to seek enlightment, seeks to give answers. Religion is correct in the same way that Newton was i.e. only partly. It only partly lifts the veil because it is based on flawed premises. a limited understanding based upon limited perception. Also Leibniz was hurt because love was not Newton's way, stealing ideas does not lead to truth. Religion steals the truth of God. Religion seeks the rules to guide us. Religion is a less refined view of the universe than the absolute truth of existence and its governing rules, and current science too suffers in the same way. Both suffer because we, in our state of only partial knowledge, are fallible. We seek to know the infinite, but our view is necessarily partial, because of our imperfections we can mistakenly pursue their aims and in doing so amplify them.